Aug. 24, 2016
4:19 a.m.
If you do not understand or learn how the whois works and you are a registrant you are at risk of losing your domain name.
Knowledge/Use (or lack) of whois has no correlation to "losing your domain name" unless you mean the opposite, the existence/use of whois is often instrumental in allowing for domain hijacks/thefts.
extremely important to managing a domain name registration.
There is no management of domains you can do with whois - it's a 1-way pull readonly protocol. I _guess_ you're referring somehow to checking "ownership" details ? WHOIS is in no way needed for that - the authoritative place to do it is with your Registrar. Rob